Seattle among best cities to be a mom? (The Daily Beast)

Seattle may have relatively few rugrats running around the city, but it’s one of the best places to a mom, according to The Daily Beast.

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The site ranked Seattle as No. 4 in its annual ranking of best U.S. cities for mothers. The list looked at the 100 largest cities and ranked them on mothers-per-capita, caliber of public schools, number of child-care workers, and availability of maternity health specialists.

Tampa snagged the No. 1 spot, followed by Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Laredo, Texas scored last.
Seattle ranked nearly at the bottom for percent of moms in the city, echoing other U.S. Census data showing the city’s relatively kid-free character. That data show that Seattle has the second lowest rate of households with kids under 18, among all major U.S. cities in the country. Only San Francisco has a lower rate of kids.

But Seattle made up for its childlessness with higher rankings in other areas. The Daily Beast ranked the city as 25th for number of child-care workers for every kid 5 and under. It said Seattle was 15th in the country for the number of OBGYN doctors and other maternity-health specialists per moms.

And it gave Seattle a score of 6, on a scale of 1 to 10, for quality of public schools. That score was based on results from GreatSchools.org, which studies standardized test results.

Perhaps most relevant for Mother’s Day was Seattle’s “pampering score.” DB ranked the city as 15th best for pampering, based on Citysearch’s number of brunch and hair salon business per mother.